Child care practices and emotional development of children In conflict situation: the case of mandura woreda

Abstract

Conflict had a great impact on parental child nurturing care practices and emotional development of children in the world. The main objective of this study was to explore parental child nurturing practices care and emotional and behavioral problems in confilect situasion in Benishangul Gumuz Region; Metekel Zone, Mandura District. To achieve this objective the researcher used mixed descriptive survey design combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies in such a way that they complement one another. Qualitative data were analsized using thematic approach, while quantitative data were analsized using descriptive statistics like simple frequency, percentage, and logistic regression analysed using SPSS version 20. In order to draw pertinemt respondent purposive sampling and for the survey simple random sample technique were used to select 218 parents and took part in the study. A questionnaire was used to get the quantitative data, while interview guide were used to gather the qualitative data. It was found that conflict has a significant negative impact on parental childcare practices and emotional development. The finding of this study indicate that the parental childcare practices in terms of parental consistency, coercive parenting, positive encouragment, parent-child relationship, parental adjustment, family relationship, and parental teamwork issues with which 145 (66.5%) of respondents had poor parental childcare practices in Mandura Woreda and parental care practices in IDPs were poor than in area. Child emotional problem 148(67.9%), conduct 129(59.5%), hyperactivityn 120(55%)peer problem 144(66.1%)) and total SDQ score 139 (63.8%) were reported by theuir parents. Both in crue (OR 6.4 (3.4, 11.9) P<0.001 and adjusted (OR 3.8 (1.5, 7.4) P=0.002 modle, parent poor child nuturing care was found strongly associated with child emotional and behavioral problem. Child nurturing care was also associated with all domains of emotional and behavioural problem except with behaviour in an adjusted model. From the qualitative component it was also evendt that conflict have an effect on parental childcare and emotional development indicating, conflit has negative influence on child emaotional and behavioural problem. Therefore, an intervention that works to enhance child emotional development needs to consider conflict resolution and child nutruing care in such situation.